In three pending Jay Circuit Court cases, the Dunkirk man is charged with three counts of burglary, two counts of dealing in a look-alike substance, and auto theft, theft and unlawful possession of a syringe.

He was being held in the Jay County jail under a combined bond of $80,000.

Investigators were able to confirm Hayden’s account of selling some of the stolen items to a Richmond pawn shop.

The Dunkirk man – who acknowledged driving local residents to Dayton, Ohio, so they could purchase drugs – also said he was “shocked to find out that he had sold something as heroin that did not test positive as heroin.”

Hayden said he “would never want to risk someone getting sick as a result of that,” an investigator wrote.